A Century Of Yiddish Humor, All In One Woman

“At 100 years old, [Bel] Kaufman is still shpritzing jokes, Jewish and otherwise, which is in her genes. Her grandfather was the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem,” who created the Tevye character now known from Fiddler on the Roof. This year she “became one of the few adjunct professors in her age cohort and taught a course on Jewish humor at Hunter College, her alma mater.”